HYDERABAD: With inflation becoming an all-pervading evil, the effect has also been felt on the big fat Indian wedding. Weddings are important events for every Indian family and in most cases a major portion of ones savings is kept aside for the ceremony. However, with increasing prices for the past six months, weddings and their business have gone pale, say caterers and owners of wedding halls. Trilok Chandan, a research...
08:58 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New York: New York City's event planners are gearing up for a surge in business after the Empire State embraced same-sex marriage and hundreds of couples rush to tie the knot. In New York City alone, 800 couples were married within hours after New York became the sixth U.S. state to make same-sex unions legal on July 24. "We've been getting a lot of phone calls," said Harriette Rose Katz,...
12:01 PM, Aug 02, 2011
Actress Cameron Diaz has no plans to walk down the aisle as she feels the institution of marriage is dying. "I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off old traditions that don't suit our world any longer," she told Maxim magazine. But Diaz, who is said to be dating baseball player Alex Rodriguez, still believes in love,...
12:31 PM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: In march this year, when food inflation had touched a new high, Congress politician Kanwar Singh Tanwar hosted what was rumoured to be the costliest Indian wedding. During the week long nuptials, guests were treated to multi-cuisines with a choice of over a hundred dishes. The extravagance similar to the one on display at BJP president Nitin Gadkaris son's four-day mega wedding bash. Now if the self proclaimed...
08:42 AM, Apr 20, 2011
The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29 is expected to be one of the most expensive weddings. ...
08:41 PM, Apr 16, 2011
Bangalore: Jitesh Lal, a Jain, paid Rs 3 lakh to marry Divya, but the marriage lasted just one day because less than 12 hours after the wedding Lal, 26, realised divya was not a Jain as he had thought. Two marriage brokers Shantilal and Hasmukh Lal had cheated him - exploiting what is a serious lack of brides in the Jain community. Pukhraj Jain, Jitesh's uncle said, "Shantilal used to...
08:24 AM, Apr 14, 2011
Mumbai: Model-actor Samir Soni and his ladylove and actress-turned-jewelry designer Neelam Kothari are set to tie the knot on January 23rd. The shy actor, lately out of Bigg Boss said, "We will have a very quiet wedding ceremony with just our parents and siblings. We will have a wedding reception for our friends on January 26th." "We're going crazy trying to draw up a list of invitees for the reception....
05:06 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood's chocolate boy Imran Khan finally bid adieu to bachelorhood and married long time girlfriend Avantika Malik on Monday. He said he is very happy. The couple is off to Thailand on Tuesday for their honeymoon but not alone - 50 guests will be accompanying the newly-weds. Imran, who had been dating Avantika for the past eight years, had a registered marriage at his superstar uncle Aamir Khan's house...
11:42 PM, Jan 10, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood heartthrob Imran Khan, who has kept his pre-wedding rituals a complete family affair, is expected to have his movie Break-Ke Baad co-star and friend actress Deepika Padukone to be part of the ceremony. Imran is tying the knot with his childhood sweetheart Avantika Malik January 10. "Being a Mehndi and Sangeet ceremony, it would be a complete family affair and no Bollywood actors are to be seen today...
03:50 AM, Jan 09, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Imran Khan's wedding is the first high profile wedding of the year and he is making sure that it is nothing less than perfect, so much so that even the cooks are being flown from Lucknow to prepare traditional non-vegetarian dishes. "For the wedding, cooks are specially flying down from Lucknow. These are specialists and have been cooking for the family (Nassir Hussain's) for more than five...
05:51 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Mumbai: It is a known fact that filmmaker Karan Johar is interested in costume designing and the latest to take his services is Aamir Khan. The star will be wearing a KJo-designed outfit for his nephew Imran Khan's wedding with Avantika Malik. "Karan has designed clothes for Aamir and his son Junaid. He has designed a traditional as well as a formal suit for the wedding functions," said a source....
03:42 PM, Jan 06, 2011
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